Robert Wise movie of 1966, Steve McQueen getting the lead
big epic with the kitchen sink; foreign locales, romance, action, war, all that
very standard in just about every way; not bad or good
starts well, nice us of deep focus, backlighting
space of the ship is usually too flat, but a couple of good edits
McQueen's character wonderfully delineated; man obsessed with machinery, taken away in anti-imperialist move
could read the whole film as anti-imperialist, showing failure of that (ending)
but simply too much shooting of foreigners, too anglo-centric characterisation
indeed, pretty racist in depiction of Chinese as other, not given characters
deep mundanity of direction and plot arcs
just runs through standard, pretty offensive arcs. Ciphers of foreigners and women
ending doesn't really make up for this
good to watch now and again, but this is nothing more really that deeply average standard Hollywood fare
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